Land Grabs, Power, and Gender in East and Southern Africa: So, What's New?
从性别和历史视角审视东非和南部非洲的土地掠夺，揭示殖民时期延续至今的精英和男性主导现象，以及微观政治层面的性别化土地掠夺，分析权力关系如何影响土地掠夺的命名和应对措施。
When land grabs are viewed from a gendered and historical lens, critical questions arise concerning three domains of inquiry about what is arguably “new,” “foreign,” and “large-scale?” They highlight historical continuities from the colonial past elite and male capture and gendered micro-political land grabs unabated over long periods of time, which once aggregated across Sub-Saharan Africa, are large-scale in themselves. This contribution reflects on feminist political-ecological research on gender and land in Kenya, Mozambique, and Madagascar and provides windows into negotiations and contestations in processes of land grabs. It analyzes what is new, while considering relations of power and knowledge that shape different ways land grabs are named and, therefore, the kinds of actions that are subsequently prescribed. Land grabs are occurring in spite of strong laws and policies, illustrating the critical role of power relations in shaping them.